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Thomas Kenny

Mix Editor Tom Kenny joined Mix in 1988 after receiving a masters' degree in journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington. He has written extensively for Mix through the years, developing the Sound for Picture section in 1991, followed years later by a book on the subject. He was named Editor in 2003.

With more than 20 years on the road and in the studio, Lettuce brought their horn and rhythm-loaded seven-piece funk to the Fox Theater in Oakland, Calif., in mid-March, plugging into the Meyer Sound house system and filling the stage with a groove-laced yet dynamic performance.Supported on this club and theater tour by Music Matters Productions and Underlying Themes Productions, the band......

I’m a reader. I always have been. My mom has maintained all these years that one day, when I was around three-and-a-half years old, she looked across the dining room table and realized that I had taught myself to read. I was her sixth of what would become 12 children, and she read every day to me, so the story is a bit of an exaggeration. Still, at 4 I was attempting crossword puzzles and......

Something is going on in Mobile, Alabama. You can feel it in the winter air, walking along Dauphin Street downtown, turning into the block-square, well-maintained, 19th-century parks, looking up at the second-story, wrought iron railings a la New Orleans, glancing left to the famed Saenger Theatre, then strolling by Soul Kitchen, Wentzell’s Oyster House and The Brickyard, where Ben Jernigan and......

Schools Dr. Larrie Reynolds has made a commitment to technology in education. In a very big way.Music, while being an art form, is also steeped in science, Reynolds believes emphatically. And the sound engineer plays a crucial role in any performance. As a superintendent, his goal is to prepare young minds. He doesn’t expect that most of the students in the new Rock and Roll Academy will go on......